The official website of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Countries

Sri Lanka

The Adventist church in Sri Lanka operates through its mission headquarters the Adventist International School in Negombo, Lakeside Adventist Hospital, Lakpahana Adventist College and Seminary, Lakpahana Publishing house and an Adventist High School in Kandana. There are over 30 Adventist churches with more than 3,000 members.

Bangladesh

The Adventist Church in Bangladesh has about 116 churches catering to 35,000 members. It also operates the Bangladesh Adventist Seminary and College and airs truth-filled programs through short-wave radio frequency via the Adventist World Radio. The ADRA in Bangladesh actively assists the people affected by constant flooding in the country.

Myanmar

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Myanmar focuses on three core values – growth, unity and the quality of life that is complete in Him. The church operates Myanmar Adventist Seminary, an active Adventist World Studio and 220 church with 30,000 members.

Laos

The Adventist church in Laos has four churches and over 1,900 active members. Even when after Communism and under a restrictive government, hundreds of Sabbath-keepers are worshipping God and in 2009, the first local Laotian pastor was ordained to the Ministry.

Cambodia

There are ordained SDA Khmer pastors in the region. With the help for the Global Mission Pioneers, ADRA and Adventist Frontier Missionaries, the Adventist church has entered a new era of missions in Cambodia – new churches have been built, schools have been established, camp meetings have been held.

Vietnam

The church operates a mission office in Vietnam and oversees 13 churches with over 10,000 members. The church's evangelistic work, though restricted, has been making disciples of faithful church members. Also, there are many Sabbath-keeping Adventists whose names are not on church records but adherents to the messages received through the Adventist World Radio (AWR).

Timor Leste

Officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste is a small country in Southeast Asia. The Adventist work started small but with a fast growth of membership necessitated the church leadership to designate officers and directors to steer the work in this country. The church in Timor Leste operates a mission office in the capital city of Dili with 1 church and a membership of 480.

Singapore

Singapore is home to the church's union headquarters called Southeast Asia Union Mission overseeing church affairs in the country territories of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. The Singapore Mission office oversees 7 churches with 2,800 members. It also operates the San Yu High School. Singapore was once home to the church's Far Eastern Division and Asia-Pacific Division.

Indonesia

The laity of the Adventist church in Indonesia is actively involved in the church's affairs. Two union headquarters offices administer the work in Indonesia – East Indonesia Union Conference with head office in Manado, and West Indonesia Union Mission in Jakarta. It operates healthcare institutions like Manado Adventist Hospital and Bandung Adventist Hospital, Educational Institutions like Klabat University and Adventist University of Indonesia and a growing reach to the masses through Hope Channel-Indonesia and recognized. The headquarters operates over 750 churches with 97,000 members.

Philippines

Organized in 1917 as Philippine Union Mission to oversee the Lord's work in the whole archipelago, the Adventist Church in the Philippines was bifurcated in 1951 into North and South Philippine Unions. Because of further expansion, the South was later divided into two, the South and Central Philippine Union Missions. Thus from the original single parent body, three unions now administer the work in the entire country.

Malaysia

The work of the Adventist Church in Malaysia is divided among three missions: Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Brunei and Sarawak. The Publishing Ministries Department is successfully experimenting with a new way of training Global Mission Pioneers. Penang Adventist Hospital has gained world recognition as a medical institution.